Andy Murray's gruelling back injury rehabilitation could boost his French Open campaign, according to coach Ivan Lendl.

Two-time Grand Slam winner Murray forced his way past back trouble to compete in the season-opening Australian Open last month.

Lendl said the 26-year-old Scot pushed hard for a return, condensing fitness and rehab work in the process.

Murray slipped out of the Australian Open at the quarter-finals, seen off by Roger Federer.

Eight-time Grand Slam champion Lendl believes Murray will not start to feel the benefit of that punishing schedule until at least next month.

By the time Roland Garros comes along in May, Lendl expects Murray to be in both top shape, and form.

"Our preparation for Australia was a little condensed after injuries," said Lendl. "He was a little fatigued because he had to do so many things, so many hours of fitness and tennis in a shorter period of time than usual.

"But I don't think that time is going to get lost, I think it's going to start paying dividends around March.

"The schedule has been pretty much set, it's pretty good leading up to the French.

"There's time for Andy to be sharp for the French and that's what we're working towards now of course."

Murray wants to improve ranking at ABN Amro tournamentAndy Murray sees the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament as an opportunity to gain rhythm and improve . Been ranking

Photo : Reuters"I wanted to play some games before the tournament Acapulco late February. There were several options , but Rotterdam I have played before and with pleasure . Moreover, it is close to my home town of London ," the number six in the world Monday at a press conference ." In addition, I spent the next week hardly defend points so that opportunities to improve my ranking . Whatever "

Murray was in October last year, had surgery on his back . Early this year , the winner of Wimbledon was until his return to the ATP tour .funThe Scot then again found pleasure in playing tournaments. " Because I 've been there a while and now am completely pain free , I can again enjoy being on the tour. "" My back feels so far very good, but it remains to be seen how it plays out in the longer term . At the Australian Open , I have only my first really long matches, but the advantage there is that you play every day. "" Here in Rotterdam, I will probably have to play , if I win a few games at least. Every day I wonder how I feel then . ""At the Australian Open I started to really feel me after my surgery . Well again in the quarter-final against Roger Federer , I made even though I lost another step in the right direction , because so much resistance I had not had since comeback . "Murray has as a major goal for this year to improve on clay . "Normally I play only three or four clay tournaments per year. Now I also played in the Davis Cup against the United States on clay and probably will be the case in the next Davis Cup match against Italy . Hopefully that and I wen something more to the type of job , "said the Scot .playMurray follows enthusiast as the Winter Olympics in Sochi on the foot . He looked at Ahoy Monday for the Netherlands as successful 500 yards on television . Michel Mulder grabbed the gold for Jan Smeekens and Ronald Mulder ." It was great . Incredible ," said the Scot . "I love sports and when I have time I watch everything . Scots we are I believe pretty good at curling . Yea, though everyone always laugh when I say that . "Murray plays Wednesday at 19.30 his first match in Ahoy . The winner of 2009 in Rotterdam extent than in the first round , the Frenchman Edouard Roger - Vasselin .

I'd understand the "stop worrying" thing if people were being all doom and gloom, and constantly fretting, but most people are being optimistic about Andy's progress.

It was always going to take many months for Andy to fully recover from his surgery, if he was going to fully recover, so there's nothing wrong with recognising that, and adjusting our expectations accordingly. Far better to accept he's still on the mend than to get your knickers in a twist because it comes as a shock that he's not playing at his peak level.

Typical Daily Mail story. Six months' notice is generous - and the family in question have only lived there for 8 months anyway! They've had plenty of time to find a new place to rent before being made 'homeless'.

Its the two guys who Andy bought the hotel from that owns that area if you read it its them thats gave them notice .But Andys obviously going to buy it .So he will be the one the papers will have a go at if this happens.

Its the two guys who Andy bought the hotel from that owns that area if you read it its them thats gave them notice .But Andys obviously going to buy it .So he will be the one the papers will have a go at if this happens.

Also it was they who apparently said that it Andy bought the hotel he would ensure that the tenancies remained, which he obviously has done, but that doesn't mean that he promised not to 'evict' them.

Anyway if the tenants in question felt so aggrieved, why didn't they complain when they got the original notice to quit six months ago? Not that that would have done them any good because the landlords hadn't done anything wrong, and I'd assume that a Lease would be in place for each tenancy.

Sounds like sombody is just hoping to make a bit of cash by way of compensation with this! Grrrr! I sincerely hope Andy doesn't fall for it!

If so it's a nice try on their part, but there's nothing they need to be compensated for. The previous landlords, and Andy, haven't done anything illegal. I take their point about staff being recruited locally, but I also know that bringing in some 'specialist' staff from elsewhere is a necessity.

Basically it's a completely pointless and malicious article designed to tarnish Andy's good public image.